No-wash Denim

Lightweight denim has one recurring problem: most of it goes limp. Take the weight down and the cloth stops holding a shape, which is why light denim so often ends up as a soft, unstructured piece

A denim trouser seldom reads as tailored, and the giveaway is rarely the colour; it's the shape. Denim much below 300g/m² has to be handled as a soft cloth: the waistband rolls, the front hangs

Most denim takes its character from the surface: a print, a coating, a rinse repeated until the colour breaks. This cloth works the other way round.Style No.: YM6200Fabric Composition: 94%Polyester +

Workwear and riding denim keep coming back because the clothes look like they can take something, and that look has always been easier to design than to wear.Style No.: YM6201Fabric Composition:

At 280g/m², Durable Polyester Denim is a mediumweight cloth with the denim look on both faces and no wash process needed to get there.Style No.: YM5600Fabric Composition: 86%Polyester + 12%Viscose +

Polyester Denim Textile is the firm end of this range: 98% polyester with only 2% spandex, so it behaves less like a stretch knit and more like a stable cloth.Style No.: YM5601Fabric Composition:

At 160g/m², Lightweight Polyester Denim is a light, stretchy cloth with a denim face and almost none of a denim's weight.Style No.: YM3492Fabric Composition: 89%Polyester + 11%SpandexDyeing Process:

At 300g/m², Stretch Polyester Denim has the heft of a bottom-weight cloth while staying entirely synthetic: 90% polyester, 10% spandex, no cotton anywhere in the blend.Style No.: YM3493Fabric

Viscose Stretch Denim Fabric is built on a rayon base rather than a synthetic one: 71% viscose, 24% polyester, 5% spandex. That ratio is what gives it the hand it has.Style No.: YM6101Fabric

Read the denim shelves this season and the direction is clear: silhouettes are getting longer and looser, trousers are cut wide and column-straight, and denim has moved into the office.Style No.:

Designers tend to start a lightweight denim piece from the shape rather than from the cloth: a wide leg that needs to swing, a gathered waist, a tiered skirt, a tunic worn open over something